Courtesy:
IndiaFM
Monday,
April
30,
2007
UTV
Motion
Pictures
gears
up
for
Cannes
Film
festival
2007.
On
May
18,
UTV
will
curl
up
curtains
to
showcase
two
of
its
tent
pole
upcoming
projects
-
Jodha
Akbar
and
Goal.
The
two
films
will
be
unveiled
for
the
very
first
time
at
Cannes
2007,
which
is
scheduled
to
release
across
the
world
in
2007.
Present
at
the
Cannes
unveiling
of
Jodha
Akbar
would
be
the
director
of
the
film
Ashutosh
Gowariker
and
actors
Aishwarya
Rai
and
Hrithik
Roshan.
The
second
film
Goal
is
based
on
an
Asian
soccer
league
team
and
shot
entirely
in
UK,
Goal
is
a
sports
action
drama
starring
John
AbrahamBipasha
Basu.They
too
who
would
be
present
at
the
unveiling
of
the
film
at
Cannes.
Says
Siddharth
Roy
Kapur,
VP
marketing
and
Sales
"Indian
films
have
always
raised
the
curiosity
factor
in
the
west.
With
the
new
wave
of
Indian
cinema
has
been
widely
acknowledged
and
welcomed
across
the
globe
which
is
a
positive
for
us.
This
year
we
would
unveil
two
of
our
upcoming
movies
both
of
which
have
been
positioned
as
international
projects
with
a
universal
appeal."
UTV
will
also
display
its
entire
film
catalogue
at
Cannes.
This
includes
blockbusters
like
Swades,
Parineeta,
Viruddh,
Chup
Chup
Ke,
Don,
Blue
Umbrella
and
Rang
De
Basanti
all
from
UTV's
archetypal
collection.
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